Language Journal 3:

I didn't study today.  But I talked for 30 minutes with my mother-in-law getting the recipe for zucchini burgers.  And another recipe that uses zucchini in soup.  It's really amazing that I can manage to go days living in a foreign country and not have to speak the language.  Today, I managed to pay the electric bill, the water bill, and buy groceries without uttering a single word.